Pre-production workflow for photographers
All right – you have decided to do a job as a photographer of values. We talked than you think to be a good theme or specialty, compared royalty free licensing rights-managed compared and discussed the appropriate versions necessary. Now let's talk about your workflow. We will need to deal with pre and post production, so let's begin.
Pre-Production – "Be prepared" is the motto of the Boy Scouts, so be prepared for whatever might throw a curve in the course of a session photos. In many cases, value as a freelance photographer, was shot in the specification, so make sure you have camera equipment in your vehicle all times. You never know when a situation will arise that creates an opportunity for a single image, it would be a shame to lose. After traveling in the center Alabama, a F3 tornado struck five miles of my location. I was one of the first photojournalist to capture the consequences. Many of these images were used by agencies News of area and three were approved and published textbooks.
Here's an idea of the team that took on a normal road trip: three digital bodies, four lenses of different sizes, flash, batteries, ten modules of compact flash memory, rain suit, tripod, monopod, batteries, protective rain gear, gps, light meter, cleaning kit, batteries, new products, portable hard drive and a laptop. By the way, did I mention the batteries? You can never have enough batteries. I also would suggest you get insurance, some homeowners policies can cover your team, however, there are companies that offer an approach that not only protect you against the thief, which also covers damage to the arts.
Now you are ready to go, camera in hand you select the correct white balance and exposure and you are ready to make that first shot. Here is his first decision of what format you shoot? RAW, JPEG or TIFF – to make that wise decision, because this will determine the development of post-production process a Once you get back to the comfort of home or hotel. RAW is the native format used by each camera manufacturer and provide the information of the image. You not be able to store as many images per module, but the additional benefits offered in the post-production to output problems. Everyone is familiar with JPEG and in most cases this is the format of choice for fans, as almost any picture viewer lets you see what he shot with no conversion rate. You will be able to run and store many more images per module, but the image quality will be affected as you save and resave image in post. The third format is TIFF poplars. As in RAW, TIFF format provides a much larger file, so once again Image counts for memory module is reduced, however TIFF format is less loss, good benefits when you start working with the image, but as in JPEG Some adjustments will be lost freedoms that you capture in RAW format.
So when it really counts, the RAW format, if you are shooting range for practice or experimentation, JPEG will work fine.
I'll make a guess here. Most of people who start with no more than a camera and that's the case, I would like to make a suggestion. Make sure you have many memory modules you. Have reached more affordable, so that out of pocket expense will not be great. This is where I'm gong with this. When in a film, provided I have two fully equipped chambers and take similar pictures of the same theme in both chambers. Why? As reliable as these modules are, they do fail. If you have everything in one module then you've lost all the work they have put into this project. If you have multiple modules, then you can divide your work across multiple chips, so the protection of all that hard work. It only takes a moment to make a change out and can save you the pain, agony and money should be a failure. Only Track your, naming nomenclature when moving the files through your system, which is not superimposed on an image.
In the next article will discuss the post-production.
About the Author
A freelance photojournalist for nearly 20 years traveling, photographing and writing about the Southern way of life, locations and nature.
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Photographer Workflow Obstacles